Litoria purpureolata

Litoria purpureolata is a tree frog from the island of New Guinea. Scientists have only found it in Papua Province in Indonesia and West Sepak Province in Papua New Guinea.[1][2][3][4]

Litoria purpureolata
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. purpureolata
Binomial name
Litoria purpureolata
(Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007)[2]
Synonyms
  • Nyctimystes purpureolatus [2]

The adult male frog is 56 to 68 mm long from nose to rear end, which is large for a frog in Nyctimystes or Litoria. Unlike many tree frogs, it has only a small stripe down its side or no stripe at all. It has green skin with some white on its front legs and rear legs. It has a light brown arc on its ear. Some of the webbing between its toes is purple in color.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Litoria purpureolata". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Nyctimystes purpureolatus (Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Paul Oliver; Stephen J. Richards; Burhan Tjaturadi; Djoko Iskandar (2007). "A new large green species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from western New Guinea" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1519 1: 7–26. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria purpureolata". 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T135895A4217680. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135895A4217680.en. Retrieved August 10, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)